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Re: [Fwd: Re: [CT] Jihadi in Houston? Rocket launcher found]

Released on 2013-09-18 00:00 GMT

Email-ID

1106264

Date

2010-01-01 00:09:51

From

aaron.colvin@stratfor.com

To

analysts@stratfor.com, bokhari@stratfor.com

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CT] Jihadi in Houston? Rocket launcher found]

Rocket Launcher Found In Apartment
No Charges Filed
http://www.click2houston.com/news/22097824/detail.html

A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into
her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street.

When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned
enough to call the bomb squad.

They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a
missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks.

"It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can
stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and
fortifications," said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on
the North Freeway.

That type of rocket launcher has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The renter of the apartment didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2.

"This is my house," the woman said. " Get away from here. I don't want to
talk to nobody."

The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to Nabilaye I.
Yansane, someone whom she allowed to store items at her apartment.

Police records show that she didn't want Yansane at her apartment, so she
called them.

According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that
allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn't want to talk to KPRC Local
2 about that, either.

"I don't know," she said. "You'll have to ask the police."

Yansane was charged with criminal trespassing and pleaded guilty. He was
sentenced to three days in jail, which he has already served. No charges
related to the rocket launcher or writings were filed.

"Other people could have had access to the apartment, so maybe if a rocket
launcher was located there, as is stated in the offense report, maybe it
belonged to somebody else," attorney Garl Polland said.

Prosecutors said there are no state charges for having the unarmed
launcher or possessing Jihadist writings, unless they contain some type of
threat.

The former director of Houston's FBI office said rocket launchers can be
dangerous if they're in the wrong hands.

"I don't know any other use for those weapons except in combat," Don Clark
said. "I've had them in combat, used them in combat. That's what they are
used for."

Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any
ties to terrorists or a terrorist network.

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may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Kamran Bokhari wrote:

Not surprised. Houston has a considerable extremist presence. Some of
them were bound to go off the deep end.